John T
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/07 23:47:21
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This thread is reminding me I need a new roll of gaffer tape.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/08 00:51:00
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1. ARC2, now I can get a mix faster than ever. No more hit and miss.
2. Wireless keyboard and mouse. Now I can place them on top of my Korg Krome 88.
3. Upgrade my CPU to the latest i7. Now it is errrrr faster.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/08 05:45:00
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Jeff M.
For me it's a Kemper Profiling Amp.
Sounds fantastic and reamping via spdif couldn't be easier.
Recording - prints a mono DI track (L) and mono track of the amp you're playing (R).
Reamping - send the DI back into the Kemper, change to another profile, arm a new track (mono or stereo), press play to record the reamped track.
Mine is also the Kemper Profiling Amp! In regards to your description above, is there any latency re-amping back through the spdif? As it felt like there was a little doing it through the analog circuitry. Regards Lee
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/08 06:44:00
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New studio monitors - JBL LSR308's. I can now mix bass on the first shot. Before with Samson Resolv 6.5a monitors I had a problem getting the bass right and would take several mixes.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/08 06:56:48
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A Roland Octa-Capture to work with my VS 100.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/08 07:03:10
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A nice little valve preamp. And a PJ bass. The two together record beautifully. I originally wanted a Jazz bass, but played this in the music shop where I teach, and fell in love with it. Through the preamp, EQ, Ca-2a and maybe a smidgen of Sat Knob (great plugin  ) set to keep high = Bass heaven. Sometimes ad a bit of chorus, and maybe delay - lurvely...
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/08 07:07:55
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Oh, and arriving in August is the best new addition. A sibling for my son.  We will then have the makings of a power trio. Gin & Ts all round. Carry on.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/08 07:33:23
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☄ Helpfulby tagruvto 2014/07/12 07:36:42
These ferrite core clips: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CIQH0CA/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I had an unsolvable RF problem since there is a radio station about 2.5 miles from me. At certain times I would get radio stations leaking into my signal. I did some research and found that a solution to this problem using ferrite cores on audio cables. Its amazing how well these work and it removed virtually all the RF noise.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/08 07:38:42
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That is very interesting Noel. Previously I have assumed that Ferrite Beads were only useful for suppressing unintended transmission from a cable. Your comment sent me off to read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrite_bead where I learned that they do indeed work in both directions. Thanks for the tip!
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/08 11:06:59
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My RME fireface ufx is what I'm most happy about now. The latest purchase is a behringer patchbay, but I've not it installed yet. I'm Really looking forward to be able to use outboard gear in a more creative way without too much hassle. And I'm waiting for a used Yamaha Motif ES rack. It's in the mail right now :-)
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/08 11:17:37
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I do enjoy the flexibility of "TotalMix" with the UFX; was the upgrade a "life changer" over the i/o of the FW?
I really don't think so.
Ultimately can I run with slightly lower latency; pretty much.
Maybe the improved AD cleans up the mix, IF you are using lots of live tracks.
The way I work, a few guitar tracks, a few vocal tracks; I'm not sure its huge.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/08 11:21:16
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Probably the most useful recent addition was a 500GB SSD in an eSATAp case for Komplete, Addictive Drums/Keys, Maschine and other sample content. It hooks up to my laptop with just the eSATAp cable and on my desktop I can use eSATA and USB power or just USB3. Very useful!
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/08 11:28:16
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My wife's new tablet.
Part of that deal was that I got her massively underused 64 bit W7 PC.
This replaced the Vista laptop that I had been getting by with for a while.
My studio is a much happier place.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/08 13:15:52
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Not that recent but the last thing was a "Quiet" case. Essential for when I'm recording voice overs for videos.
The difference it made was so great I had to check that the computer was booted when I first started it.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/08 13:30:23
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An Ibanez as 103 ( halfacoustic guit),
since I record with that really nice piece of wood
I don´t need much editing/ miking aso to get the guit sound I like and need.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/08 13:40:46
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1. Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (great preamps for vocals and Telecaster) and, as documented in my recent thread... 2. Yamaha HS5 near field monitors
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/08 14:01:39
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Tascam UH-7000 Pre-amp, there is a pleasant noticeable difference
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/08 14:29:13
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+1 to Bob Bone's new eyeglasses. Jeez what a difference!
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/08 19:19:07
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leemac
Mine is also the Kemper Profiling Amp!
In regards to your description above, is there any latency re-amping back through the spdif? As it felt like there was a little doing it through the analog circuitry.
Regards
Lee
No latency here, everything locks right up. Might be due to the additional conversion steps of d/a -> a/d into your audio interface?
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/08 21:01:04
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A pair of Adam F7 monitors after years of using Behringer "Truths". WOW what a difference - more enjoyable mixing process and mucho better results!
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/08 22:13:26
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iI stopped using the VS 700 R and uses my RME UCX ....bought an passive computer , and a RME avanced remote to share mixes and sub mixes , this remote made my VS 700C monitorings section back to life !! (outside the VS 700C )
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/09 00:43:50
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Rski
Install a liquid cooling system onto my CPU.....at this new location, the room acoustics really brought out the computer fan noise once sonar was working away.
Once the liquid cooling system was installed the annoying fan noise is reduced significantly.
I can echo this one. The combination of liquid cooling, and an SSD system drive have really taken the edge of the noise generated by the fan . . . when Sonar is workin' hard.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/09 01:16:05
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FuddyDuddy
+1 to Bob Bone's new eyeglasses. Jeez what a difference!
Do you take turns wearing them?? It is amazing you have the same prescription!
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/09 02:27:21
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Not so recent but the latest addition was a 2nd monitor. Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
These ferrite core clips:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CIQH0CA/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I had an unsolvable RF problem since there is a radio station about 2.5 miles from me. At certain times I would get radio stations leaking into my signal. I did some research and found that a solution to this problem using ferrite cores on audio cables. Its amazing how well these work and it removed virtually all the RF noise.
You could have avoided all that by simply wallpapering the outside of your entire house with tin foil.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/09 08:11:59
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mike_mccue
That is very interesting Noel.
Previously I have assumed that Ferrite Beads were only useful for suppressing unintended transmission from a cable. Your comment sent me off to read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrite_bead where I learned that they do indeed work in both directions.
Thanks for the tip!
I did a lot of research around this while I was trying to solve it and found some very interesting articles around this which led me to trying this. Here is one such paper: http://audiosystemsgroup.com/SAC0305Ferrites.pdfI had some other links to case studies as well but can't find them right now. I knew about the use of these for video cables (many HDMI and older VGA cables had these) but never thought that they could be used to clean up audio signals. It made a huge difference for me. I now have 2 cores clamped on the termination points of all my cables at home including my mic and guitar cables mic and power cables. I was initially worried about some signal loss but couldn't perceive anything and there is a marked loss of noise at high gain levels.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/09 09:24:59
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A 256 GB SSD for fav samples, 2 small but very bright flashlights and Komplete 9 Ultimate. Not the software but the drive it comes on. Install as much as you want, when you want and you don't have to babysit it. They should have that option for the regular Komplete.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/09 15:41:29
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It's been already a while in my rig but Axe FX II (+dedicated pedalboard from Fractal Audio) has been one of the best investments ever. With Axe Edit 3.xx I can dial virtually any guitar or bass sound I want quickly and with ease - and save them as presets for later use.
The other investment is a step to opposite direction; real Hammond organ from the early 70's. Digital organs sound great until you hear the real thing. :)
Axe FX II is almost as good as my best real guitar amps but it's million times more versatile.
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/09 15:50:01
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A wireless phone system, and a phone in the bathroom....that comes in very handy when I'm takin a _____ (shower),,, and somebody calls me..!!
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Re: What's a recent hardware purchase that's made your life easier in your studio?
2014/07/09 17:46:33
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An off button on my phone.
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